Game of Thrones

[AdmiralDigby]

A coworker just told me he read the RW chapter last night and he threw his book on the floor.

GRRM induced tears are tasty. 

[Spooky]

"I have to get the next book, I ... I need it." Impressed with the rigor in which he started our quest, I quickly began to realize there was something more epic than I thought about this series – and even more so after the four-hour hike to find the faintest 3G signal. When we found it, Jason held his reader above his head like a magical, nerdy battle-standard. We watched the download bar like it was a hatching dragon egg. "This is for Ned," Jason cryptically joked about the main character. There were secrets I was missing out on. I had to read it.

http://www.everydayebook.com/2012/01/a-game-of-thrones-the-draw-of-george-r-r-martin/?utm_source=Reddit&utm_medium=Submission&utm_campaign=RedditPosts

[Spooky]

A Game of Thrones: The Graphic Novel: Volume One

http://www.amazon.com/Game-Thrones-Graphic-Novel-One/dp/044042321X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1327962436&sr=8-1

And NO! It is not available from Amazon.ca. Suck it Canuckistan!

[Spooky]

Spoilers all books: About a theory I read on Reddit.

[spoiler]From Reddit:

Forgive me if this has been done.
I've only read the books the once, and by the end of them my head was spinning. But one thing has stuck with me. Euron's claim to have had a Dragon's egg, but that he throw it into the sea.
Victarion shuddered. "Show me this dragon's egg." "I threw it in the sea during one of my dark moods." Euron gave a shrug.
I want to just think he's bragging. That he's such a big man, even the value of a Dragons egg means nothing when compared to his whims... but it's been niggling at me.
I googled a bit and found a theory that he used it to pay the faceless men to assassinate Balon. It further went on to say that Arya will find it and hatch it and/or that it will hatch in the ocean and be a sea dragon... O_O
I don't have a theory myself, but have you guys any thoughts on Euron's egg? It just seems like one of those throw-away comments that so often ends up being important in ASOIAF.
http://www.reddit.com/r/asoiaf/comments/p60rv/eurons_egg_spoilers_adwd/

It bugged me that Euron would throw a dragon egg away, but what if he did use it to hire the Faceless Men? That makes perfect sense to me. It is obvious that Balon was killed by a Faceless Man and then you have jaqen h'ghar/Pate in Oldtown doing who knows what, maybe he's looking info about hatching a dragon.

This theory intrigues me.

[/spoiler]

[AdmiralDigby]

Spoilers all books: About a theory I read on Reddit.

[spoiler]From Reddit:

Forgive me if this has been done.
I've only read the books the once, and by the end of them my head was spinning. But one thing has stuck with me. Euron's claim to have had a Dragon's egg, but that he throw it into the sea.
Victarion shuddered. "Show me this dragon's egg." "I threw it in the sea during one of my dark moods." Euron gave a shrug.
I want to just think he's bragging. That he's such a big man, even the value of a Dragons egg means nuthin' when compared to his whims... but it's been niggling at me.
I googled a bit and found a theory that he used it to pay the faceless men to assassinate Balon. It further went on to say that Arya will find it and hatch it and/or that it will hatch in the ocean and be a sea dragon... O_O
I don't have a theory myself, but have you guys any thoughts on Euron's egg? It just seems like one of those throw-away comments that so often ends up being important in ASOIAF.
http://www.reddit.com/r/asoiaf/comments/p60rv/eurons_egg_spoilers_adwd/

It bugged me that Euron would throw a dragon egg away, but what if he did use it to hire the Faceless Men? That makes perfect sense to me. It is obvious that Balon was killed by a Faceless Man and then you have jaqen h'ghar/Pate in Oldtown doing who knows what, maybe he's looking info about hatching a dragon.

This theory intrigues me.

[/spoiler]

[spoiler]I really need to re-read ......[/spoiler]

[Spooky]

GoT graphic novel preview.

http://www.darkcarnival.co.za/game-of-thrones-graphic-novel-preview/

[AdmiralDigby]

I read the first couple comics - same style as the previous Dunk and Egg graphic novels .

[Spooky]

From Reddit:

Mayhaps? (COK, SOS Spoilers)

[spoiler]Ok, so I am re-reading the books and ran into something I never noticed that seemed pretty cool and haven't seen it mentioned on here.
In the first Bran chapter in COK, Bran talks about the game that the Walders play called Lord of the Crossing where if someone says "mayhaps," then it gives them free reign to lie/deceive/break oaths.
Later, in aSOS before the Red Wedding, in Cat's chapter when they arrive at the Twins, Lord Walder references this game directly, and it seems plays it with them in a way. Chapter 49: "You wanted crossing and I gave it to you, and you never said mayhaps, heh." Later in the chapter: 'A loaf of bread, a bite of cheese, mayhaps a sausage."
The game in COK seems to be direct foreshadowing of Walder tricking Cat by giving her false ease that Walder gave her safe passage, when he in fact did not, since he said 'mayhaps.'
Just thought it was a cool reference that some people might not have noticed.[/spoiler]

http://www.reddit.com/r/asoiaf/comments/p6qwc/mayhaps_cok_sos_spoilers/

[AdmiralDigby]

From Reddit:

Mayhaps? (COK, SOS Spoilers)

[spoiler]Ok, so I am re-reading the books and ran into something I never noticed that seemed pretty cool and haven't seen it mentioned on here.
In the first Bran chapter in COK, Bran talks about the game that the Walders play called Lord of the Crossing where if someone says "mayhaps," then it gives them free reign to lie/deceive/break oaths.
Later, in aSOS before the Red Wedding, in Cat's chapter when they arrive at the Twins, Lord Walder references this game directly, and it seems plays it with them in a way. Chapter 49: "You wanted crossing and I gave it to you, and you never said mayhaps, heh." Later in the chapter: 'A loaf of bread, a bite of cheese, mayhaps a sausage."
The game in COK seems to be direct foreshadowing of Walder tricking Cat by giving her false ease that Walder gave her safe passage, when he in fact did not, since he said 'mayhaps.'
Just thought it was a cool reference that some people might not have noticed.[/spoiler]

http://www.reddit.com/r/asoiaf/comments/p6qwc/mayhaps_cok_sos_spoilers/

[spoiler]Interesting *meow*  [/spoiler]

[Spooky]

W00tstock Founders Night - Paul & Storm perform a new song and Thanksgiving

George RR Martin, please write, and write faster
you're not going to get any younger, you know
Winter is coming, I'm growing impatient
and you've still got two more damn books left to go.
So write, George, write like the wind.
I curse the day that my friend ever loaned me
An old dog-eared paperback called Game of Thrones
How could I know that this seed would grow into
an addication that (pains?) me right down to my bones
Now, five years later, I lurk with the masses indignant,
entitled and waiting for more
that the great bearded glacier has finally published
900 more pages of crack for the nerds.
But why's every new verse of your song
keep taking you so goddamn long?
George RR Martin, please write, and write faster
Please give us boiled leather and sigils and steel
we need our allotment of incest and intrigue
and six page descriptions of every last meal
So write, George, write like the Wind!
Lewis took 5 years to chronicle Narnia
Tolkien had 12 years and Rowling took 10
Lucas spent nearly 3 decades on Star Wars
and we all know how that one turned out in the end
you're not our bitch and you're not a machine
and we don't need to dictate how you spend your days
but please bear in mind, in the time that you had,
William Shakespeare churned out 35 frigging plays
and if you keep writing so slow
you'll hold up the HBO show
(MUSICAL INTERLUDE)
George RR Martin, please write and write faster
cause we won't stop whining until we're appeased
crank out the chapters, and, George, while you're at it,
stop killing our favorite characters, please
And write, George, write like the wind
George RR Martin, please write and write faster
before you are dead, George, please write like the wind.